Faye Bradley

Hong Kong Design Institute has introduced the opening of a brand new digital manufacturing studio at Shaw Studios, one of many greatest and most complete movie services within the Higher Bay Space. It’s supposed to help skilled schooling within the sector and improve filming services within the metropolis.

The brand new studio boasts state-of-the-art digital manufacturing instruments, together with Hong Kong’s largest Samsung microLED show, expertise from digital manufacturing specialist Disguise, and options from ARRI, elevating native digital manufacturing requirements considerably.

Spanning 9,000 sq. toes, the studio is the most important filming venue in Hong Kong’s rising digital manufacturing business. Services additionally embrace management rooms, workspaces, and dressing rooms. HKDI college students, lecturers, and business professionals can collaborate to mix digital and actual scenes utilizing the venue, expertise, and tools help, fostering alternatives for experimentation. Throughout its preliminary section, two movie specialists who’re HKDI graduates will profit from this system described above.

“HKDI has at all times emphasised the combination of concept and observe, offering college students with cutting-edge programs that carefully align with the business. The opening of the Digital Manufacturing Studio implies that college students can function digital manufacturing programs extensively used within the business in a superior studying surroundings and with world-class services at hand, unleashing their creativity, turning concepts into actuality, and leaving them higher outfitted for additional research and future employment,” stated Dr Lay-lian ONG, principal of HKDI and IVE (Lee Wai Lee) in a press launch.

HKDI beforehand achieved the excellence of being the only establishment in Hong Kong to obtain coaching accreditation from three well-known movie manufacturing manufacturers – Disguise, ARRI, and Dolby – on the similar time.